Dave Thomas was prompted by seeing someone with a knife stab another person at an apartment building on Harbor Drive in Oswego Township in Illinois. Thomas dashed to his home, thought about grabbing his handgun, but chose his AR-15, then returned to the apartment and ordered the assailant to stop. He recalled later:

I poked my head out the door. There was a pool of blood, blood was everywhere in the hall. There was still a confrontation going on, there were about three or four people involved at this point. So I ran back into my house and grabbed my AR-15. I grabbed the AR-15 over my handgun — bigger gun, I think a little bit more of an intimidation factor. Definitely played a part in him actually stopping.

“The AR-15 is my weapon of choice for home protection,” Thomas said. “It’s light, it’s maneuverable. If you train and know how to use it properly, it’s not dangerous. And this is just a perfect example of good guy with an AR-15 stopped a bad guy with a knife. And there were no lives taken, so all in all it was a good day.

What now, lefties? Thankful this particular AR-15 belonged to a Good Samaritan?